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Biography • Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt · January 16, 2013

VERONICA BRANDT has long searched for an easy way to become musically proficient, even choosing St Cecilia at her confirmation way back in the 1990s. After despairing of ever achieving a consistent practice routine, she branched off into studying computers, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Along the way she started attending the Latin Mass at the Maternal Heart of Mary Church. A young man named Peter helped her follow the Mass in her missal and so she married him and dived into raising and homeschooling six children.

The Engineering degree introduced her to an arcane typesetting system called TeX, which turned out to be useful for typing up Gregorian chant. Soon Veronica ended up typing music for different groups and thereby learning much about Gregorian chant. Being fussy about understanding the music she was hearing at Mass, she built up her own little book of hymns in Latin and English called A New Book of Old Hymns. In 2014 the book received an Imprimatur.

*VERONICA BRANDT • Publicity Photograph (A)
*VERONICA BRANDT • Publicity Photograph (B)

Veronica lives in the Blue Mountains and helps out with music at the weekly Latin Mass at Our Lady of the Nativity, Lawson served by FSSP Parramatta. More about her adventures in homeschooling, knitting and her husband’s drawings can be found at brandt.id.au. She still has major difficulty maintaining a consistent practice routine.

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Filed Under: Articles, Biographies Last Updated: December 12, 2020

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About Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. She lives near Sydney, Australia, with her husband and six children.—(Read full biography).

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19 May 2022 • “Trochee Trouble”

I’m still trying to decide how to visually present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores, using what is (technically) the official rhythm of the Church. You can download my latest attempt, for this coming Sunday. Notice the “trochee trouble” as well as the old issue of neumes before the quilisma.

—Jeff Ostrowski
16 May 2022 • Harmonized Chant?

This year’s upcoming Sacred Music Symposium will demonstrate several ways to sing the CREDO at Mass. This is because—for many parishes—to sing a full-length polyphonic CREDO by Victoria or Palestrina is out of the question. Therefore, we show options that are halfway between plainsong and polyphony. You can hear my choir rehearsing a section that sounds like harmonized plainsong.

—Jeff Ostrowski
14 May 2022 • “Pure” Vatican Edition

As readers know, my choir has been singing from the “pure” Editio Vaticana. That is to say, the official rhythm which—technically—is the only rhythm allowed by the Church. I haven’t figured out how I want the scores to look, so in the meantime we’ve been using temporary scores that look like this. Stay tuned!

—Jeff Ostrowski

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And since it is becoming that holy things be administered in a holy manner, and of all things this sacrifice is the most holy, the Catholic Church, to the end that it might be worthily and reverently offered and received, instituted many centuries ago the holy canon, which is so free from error that it contains nothing that does not in the highest degree savor of a certain holiness and piety and raise up to God the minds of those who offer.

— Council of Trent (1562)

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